Thursday, July 10, 2025

How To Talk About Communication Problems (draft, work in progress, part 1)

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[Note: This is a preliminary draft of work in progress. Any feedback would be much appreciated. --RTC] Introduction The mid-twentieth centur...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Review of "Communication Theory: Mapping a Diverse Field" by Karsten Pedersen (Ethics International Press, 2025)

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  Image source: https://ethicspress.com/products/communication-theory Karsten Pedersen, a professor at Roskilde University in Denmark, has w...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Back in Business

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This blog has been offline for the last week or so because of a technical glitch, now solved thanks to a suggestion from the blogger.com hel...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Review of "Communication Theory as Liberal Education" by Austin S. Babrow (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2025)

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  Image source:  https://titles.cognella.com/communication-theory-as-liberal-education-9798823343947 A new college textbook by Austin S. Bab...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Traditions of Communication Theory: An Introduction to the Constitutive Metamodel

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  Above is a slide prepared for a lecture about the traditions of communication theory. It tries to encapsulate seven complex traditions of ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Remarks to the Pennsylvania Communication Association

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  Image source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122109968042533321&set=pb.61565999637307.-2207520000 (Following are my revised note...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Framing Mass Incarceration as a Social-Systems Communication Problem: Brief Review

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Working toward a larger project on how we frame communication problems in theory and practice, I'd like to reflect briefly on a recent a...